Brian Kernighan Population Count in JavaScript
The expression n AND (n-1) clears the lowest set bit.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 | "use strict"; // Brian Kernighan Population Count in JavaScript // // PURPOSE // The expression n AND (n-1) clears the lowest set bit. Repeating it counts the ones in a // nonnegative integer without visiting zero bits individually. // // METHOD // Clear one set bit per iteration and increment the counter. The loop stops exactly when all // original set bits have been removed. // // COMPLEXITY // O(k) iterations for k set bits and O(1) auxiliary space under fixed-width arithmetic. // // CONTRACT // n must be nonnegative. Negative integers have different width/sign behavior between // languages and are excluded. // Public APIs infer array lengths except in C, which accepts pointer/length pairs. Vertex // counts and matrix dimensions remain explicit. Arrays must contain signed 32-bit integers. // Sorted order, correct tree topology, and caller-owned data-structure invariants are // preconditions; checking them on every query would change query complexity. // Scalar and shape checks are included. Value-range checks are included where needed to // prevent invalid indexing or nontermination. Allocation sizes are capped at 4,000,000 // workspace entries. Arithmetic outside Python raises an error on 32-bit overflow; Python // uses arbitrary precision. Native allocation failures propagate. In-place outputs may be // partly updated after arithmetic failure. These are single-threaded, in-memory // implementations. // // LANGUAGE DETAILS // Node.js 18+: Int32Array inputs and workspaces provide compact integer storage. Automatic // lengths and checked arithmetic reject values outside signed 32-bit. Invalid inputs or // overflow throw RangeError. // // EXAMPLE // Expected return: 0. // Run: node example.js // Tests for this exact source artifact run before publication. The accompanying source // archive includes unit cases, runtime results, and source hashes. function alg_require(valid) { if (!valid) throw new RangeError("invalid algorithm input"); } function alg_checked(v) { if (!Number.isInteger(v) || v < -2147483648 || v > 2147483647) throw new RangeError("32-bit result overflow"); return v; } function alg_add(a,b) { return alg_checked(a+b); } function alg_sub(a,b) { return alg_checked(a-b); } function alg_mul(a,b) { return alg_checked(a*b); } function alg_size(n) { alg_require(Number.isInteger(n) && n>=0 && n<=4000000); return n; } function population_count(n) { alg_require(Number.isInteger(n) && n >= -2147483648 && n <= 2147483647); alg_require((n >= 0)); let count = 0; while ((n != 0)) { n = (n & alg_sub(n, 1)); count = alg_add(count, 1); } return count; } let n = 0; let result = population_count(n); console.log(result); |